Dr Johan Raath

POSITION
SENIOR LECTURER
QUALIFICATIONS
PHD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
PORTFOLIO
Johan Raath received his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2021 from the Stellenbosch University. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy technologies and education development. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
POWER ELECTRONICS & RENEWABLE ENERGIES
PUBLICATIONS
  • Raath, J., Jordaan, G.D., “Use of Correlation values instead of Euclidean distances in a Soft-decision Viterbi decoder”, Proc. IWTS’97, Shah Alam, Malaysia, May 1997.
  • Hertzog, Pierre E, H J Vermaak, and J H Raath. “Higher Certificate in Renewable Energy Technologies (HCRET) at CUT.” 2nd International conference "Research and Innovation for sustainable development 2014". Cape Town, South Africa: U6 Consortium, 2014. 56.
  • Hertzog, Pierre E, H J Vermaak, and J H Raath. “Design and implementation of a Higher Certificate in Renewable Energy Technologies at the Central University of Technology.” International Sustainable Development Conference 2014. Bangkok: 2014.
  • Raath, J., Mouton, H. and Geyer, T., Integration of Inverter Constraints in Geometrical Quantification of the Optimal Solution to a MPC Controller”, In: Proceedings of the 24th South African Universities’ Power Engineering conference (SAUPEC), Vereeniging, South Africa, February 2016.
  • Raath, J., Mouton, H. and Geyer, T., Optimization of the geometrical solution space for extended horizon MPC to a multi-level inverter”, In: Control and Modelling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2016 IEEE 17th Workshop on, pp. 1-6, Trondheim, Norway, June 2016.
  • Raath, J., Mouton, H. and Geyer, T., “Iterative slicing as solution to the model predictive control problem to a three-level inverter”, In: Proceedings of the 25th South African Universities’ Power Engineering conference (SAUPEC), Stellenbosch, South Africa, February 2017.
  • Raath, Johan, Toit Mouton, and Tobias Geyer. "On the Micciancio-Voulgaris algorithm to solve the long-horizon direct mpc optimization problem." In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE), pp. 95-100. IEEE, 2017.
  • Faber, Jaco, Johan Raath, and Herman Vermaak. "MPPT photovoltaic test instrument with data logging capabilities." In 2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech), pp. 193-196. IEEE, 2017.
  • B. A. Mhlambi, K. Kusakana and J. Raath, "Voltage and Frequency Control of Isolated Pico-Hydro System," 2018 Open Innovations Conference (OI), 2018, pp. 246-250, doi: 10.1109/OI.2018.8535603.
  • Raath, Johan, Toit Mouton, and Tobias Geyer. "Alternative Sphere Decoding Algorithm for Long-horizon Model Predictive Control of Multi-level Inverters." In 2020 IEEE 21st Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2020.
EXTERNAL PROFILES
ResearchGate

  • Dr Johan Raath
  • Tel: +27(0)51 507 3074
  • jraath@cut.ac.za